What is vibration isolation for?


Where do these vibrations come from? From where I stand the earth doesn't shake too badly?! I would think that most vibrations would come via sound transmission through the air directly through the chassis of the components thus rendering the racks or other vibration isolation, uh, useless, no? (with the exception of actual thumping from walking etc)
neubilder

Showing 1 response by stehno

Don't you realize there are over 400,000 earthquakes a year around the world and getting worse every year? They say (whoever 'they' are) the world is constantly shaking!!!!

Although the above is supposedly true, the vibrations you are concerned about have to do with what you state above.

Vibration isolation is the attempt to keep external energies from entering the component chassis as well as to retain supposedly necessary interal energies from escaping the component.

so they say.